Cigar-machine.



No. 742,877. PATENTED Nov 3, 1903. E'. KUHNE. CIGAR MACHINE.

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No. 742,877; PATENTED NOV, 3, 1903.

B. KUHNE. CIGAR MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, 19 03.

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Patented November 3, 1903.

PATENT FFIC ERNEST KUHNE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,877, dated November 3, 1903;

Application filed July 10. 1903. Serial No. 164,943. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST KUHNE,a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, Manhattan, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cigar-machine by which a bunch is uniformly shaped and a wrapper is simultaneously rolled around the bunch from tip to stub.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved cigar-machine, showing it closed; Fig. 2, a similar View showing it open; Fig. 3, a cross-section on line 3 3, Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a cross-section on line 44, Fig. 1; Fig. 5 a cross-section on line 5 5, Fig. 1; Fig. 6, a longitudinal section of one of the rollers having enlarged ends, and Fig. 7 a similar section of one of the rollers having reduced ends.

The letters a and I) represent the upper and lower sections of a divided frame open at the top and connected by a hinge c, so that the upper f ram e-section or cover a may be readily swung up or down upon the lower frame-section or base 1). Within each frame-section are hung three parallel rollers, the six rollers of both sections being so grouped as to form a cigarshaped chamber or mold between them.

In order to obtain the shape desired, two forms of rollers are used-via, three rollers cl, having expanded ends, and three rollers 6, having contracted ends, the rollers d and e alternating with each other. As seen in Fig. 6, the roller d has one gradually expanded or thickened end cl, conforming to the tip end of the cigar, and one abruptly expanded or thickened end 61 conformingto the stub end of the cigar. Each roller c, Fig. 7, has one gradually-reduced end 6, conforming substantially to the end d, and one abruptly-reduced end c conforming substantially to the end (1 lVhe'n the frame a b is closed, Fig. 3, and the rollers d e consequently assume their working position, the adjoining rollers will thus act as complements to one another and form a central cigar-shaped mold for the reception of the bunch f. The six rollers d e are all rotatable simultaneously in the same direction, to which effect their shafts d c carry clutch-jaws d e The jaws d e are adapted to be coupled to clutch-jaws g h, mounted on shaft-s g h. The six shafts g h are journaled in a hearing or box i and are arranged in horizontal alinement with the six shafts d 6 respectively. The shafts g h are rotated by hand or power, the drawings showing the latter construction. Here the driving-shaftj, having pnlleyj' and journaled in box 2' centrally between the shafts g h, carries two pinions j j The pinion j intergears with the three pinions g of shafts while the pinion j intergears with the three pinions 72, of shafts h.

In order to throw the clutches into or out of engagement, either the frame a b or the box 01 should be made s'l'dable. As shown in the drawings, the box 2' is rigidly mounted upon a bed-plate is, having a pair of longitudinal rails that engage grooves b of the slidable base I).

In use theframe a b is moved away from box 11, Fig. 2, so that the clutches are uncoupled, the cover a is thrown back, and a bunch of tobacco f is placed into the mold formed between the rollers d c. The cover a is then swung down, and the sections at b are moved toward box 1;, Fig. '1, so that the clutches are coupled, and the rollers d e are thereby operatively connected to the drivingshaftj, which will now rotate all six rollers simultaneously in the same direction -t'. 6., either all to the right or all to the leftthe drawing Fig. 5 indicating the latter construction. By means of the rotation of the rollers d e in one direction the bunchf will be rotated in the opposite direction-i. e., will be rotated toward the right, Fig. 4:, when the rollers rotate toward the left, or vice versa. The end of the cigar-wrapper Z is now introduced through the open top of cover a between the tip ends (1' e of two of the adjoining rollers d c, hung in the cover. Owing to the rotation of the rollers and the bunch, the wrapper will be gradually fed downward and wrapped around the bunch from its tip toward its stub. After this operation is completed the clutches are again uncoupled by moving the framed b away from the box t, Fig. 2, and the cover a is swung up, so that the cigar, completely wrapped, may be removed and may be fin ished by cutting it offslightly at the stub end.

My improved machine not only rapidly wraps the bunch from tip to stub without in juring it, but shapes the same by exerting a uniform pressure against the bunch while being wrapped. In this way a superior Well drawing product of great uniformity is obtained in a quick and economical manner and Without the use of skilled labor.

What I claim is 1. In a cigar-machine, a series of rollers, each having a gradually-expanded end and an abruptly-expanded end, combined with a series of intermediate rollers, each having a gradually-reduced end and an abruptly-reduced end, and means for simultaneously ro- ERNEST KUHNE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM ScHULz, FRANK v. BRIEsEN. 

